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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (ZEITZ MOCAA)
Located in the historic grain silo at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, in Cape Town, South Africa, Zeitz MOCAA is the largest art museum in Africa.
It is Jochen Zeitz in partnership with the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, who…
A City in Transition: Hans Wilschut’s Urban Studies Of Lagos
Equipped with his large-format camera in tow, Hans Wilschut traverses the world as a global nomad. While based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the photographer could be found in any major city at any given time, from Lagos and Shanghai to…
Yellow Sun: The New Contemporaries
Vanessa Power, the editor of Avenir and Avenir Africa talks exclusively to Essential Traveller about her latest exhibition in Nigeria: Yellow Sun: The New Contemporaries.
Tell us a bit about how Yellow Sun came about.
To…
Ninevites
NINEVITES
Published on DESIGNINDABA website
Produced as part of Mlangeni’s final year project at the Kaospilot school in Switzerland where she was studying social innovation and creative leadership, the idea was borne of her desire to…
Design Tips – Designing a Standard Furniture Layout
Design tips – Designing a standard furniture layout for a large living room
The living room is the place in every house that is noticed every time and by everyone. It is the area where visitors are welcomed and so, needs to be the best.…
In Conversation with Diseye Tantua
1. At what age did art begin for Diseye Tantua?
-From age 3 if I can remember correctly.
2. Diseye Tantua is regarded as a pop artist both locally and on the
international scene, what does the term ‘pop art’ mean to you?
-Pop Art …
How To Decorate With Arts
I must confess I do love working with clients that are interested in art and have pieces they love which they proudly want to feature in the interior design scheme. Art brings so much to a space – life, texture, drama, colour and a finished…
Green Products: Wireworks Takes A Contemporary Twist On Traditional Crafts
Wirework started in 1994, as an initiative that aims to motivate locals, mainly women, in the rural parts of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The self-help project encourages them to provide for themselves and their families by utilising their…
Expanding Contemporary African Sculpture
Olu Amoda examines the relationship between surveillance, voyeurism and the female form by Joseph Gergel
DESIGN TRENDS – Bathroom Trends
Is your bathroom in desperate need of an update? Be inspired with these must-have design trends and get a bathroom you will enjoy spending time in.
Time for tranquillity
Bathrooms are often the only place where people regularly have…